I wish I had been there — enjoy: Have you seen The Unbelievers yet? What would you have asked?
Category Skepticism and Science
I know I’m stating the obvious, but over at Why Evolution Is True, Jerry Coyne asks his readers two questions…
Early Monday, Greenpeace activists caused severe damage to the Nazca Lines (Peru), during an action in which they placed a…
People should be able to have access to any idea — it’s time we stop treating them like idiots; they won’t be convinced of a bad idea by the mere exposure to it because, well, ask any Biologist: we have these organs called brains and they do this little marvelous thing called *critical reception of messages*.
This is how you kick off a biotech convention:
If we care about society having a racism problem, I would argue you don’t fight racism with (positive?) racism, but rather with *equality*. It’s a principle problem, not a degree one.
Horseman envy will be the term used for the phenomenon of atheists who suffer delusions of grandeur and as a result, they think they can’t be wrong, and don’t understand why other atheists won’t worship them or accept everything they have to say in an uncritically fashion.
Yes, violence numbers are going down, but the end doesn’t justify the means. Throwing away civil liberties should be the last resource for any person in public office, not the go-to solution.
Over at Religion News Service there’s a report by some Kimberly Wiston about how Richard Dawkins stands by his remarks.…
So it says Turkey’s dictator president Recep Tayyip Erdogan:
A few days ago the results of a project [PDF] conducted by the German Ministry of Education and Research on…
Vegetarianism and associated trends are the food choice of many people. Personally, I’m not impressed. These are the reasons why a person gives up meat in his diet an why these reasons do not convince me:
I’m happy about Malala Yousafzai getting the Nobel Peace Prize because hers is a political agenda that might actually help improve the lives of everyone in Pakistan. Getting women to study is giving them the tools to free themselves from superstition, giving them opportunities to question the status quo and letting them think for themselves.
With the release of Waking Up, Sam Harris has brought the subject of ‘spirituality’ to the table. Different people have…
This week, Twitter hell broke loose when Richard Dawkins tweeted about aborting a Down fetus:
Some of you may have already seen the joint statement Richard Dawkins and Ophelia Benson released: